Man Quotes
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The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
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“Why did you do it? Give up everything to raise another man's son?' His father did look up at that. 'I didn't raise another man's son,' he said sharply. 'I raised my own.
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I'm a character actor. Nobody's ever seemed to think of me as a leading man. I'm 6'6''. I've got a big nose. I'm gangly. I've got crooked teeth. That's certainly not Brad Pitt. I'm still around and alive, so if they need older guys, I guess they're thinking of me.
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Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim - At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust, Poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust.
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The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
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A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.
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The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.
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Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.
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But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
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If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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If you say you’re going to trust your man, then trust your man. Don’t revoke that privilege when he needs it most.
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A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.
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Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.
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What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
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...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.
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Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.
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A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
